Karine Nyborg

We're hiring! Postdoc positions in environmental econ, political econ, microeconomic theory, U of Oslo: econjobmarket.org/positions/12.... Brilliant & friendly colleagues, lovely city, beautiful nature, family friendly norms, Oslo's best views from our lunch room!

I thought science hinged on prestige. Moving abroad made me reassess my priorities In Denmark, this Ph.D. student fell in love with an egalitarian society that values work-life balance

Read this. We'll be hiring this fall (U of Oslo, Econ Dept). Come to Scandinavia, where life is good. ❤️ www.science.org/content/arti...

New publication! Voluntary contributions tend to increase when made observable - but like monetary incentives, use of social approval may backfire. We show that when some contribution behaviors become visible, decline of other, invisible efforts may outweigh the positive effects. rdcu.be/eCB6W

The Rush to Quit Coal Is Leading Countries Into the “Gas Trap”

Why invest in renewables if you expect natural gas to be cheap and plentiful? The Gas Trap: Forthcoming in the JPE, by Bård Harstad and Katinka Holtsmark. www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/rus...

YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG Víkingur Ólafsson – Rameau: Les Boréades: The Arts and the Hours (Transcr. Ólafsson)

Found this beautiful Transkription of the piece …
Víkingur Ólafsson – Rameau: Les Boréades: The Arts and the Hours (Transcr. Ólafsson)
Beauty and Harmony versus the madness of the world
#classicalmusic #arts
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Israelske soldater bekrefter – har fått ordre om å skyte på palestinere i matkø Israelske soldater bekrefter at de har fått ordre om å skyte med skarpt mot ubevæpnede palestinere i matkø i Gaza, selv om de ikke utgjør noen trussel.

Hvorfor er det ingen større politisk debatt om å sanksjonere Israel? Er det ingen grenser for hva de får gjøre mot Gazas sivilbefolkning? @arbeiderpartiet.bsky.social

www.adressa.no/nyheter/uten...

To bilder spolerte drømmeferien til Mads: – Følte meg helt jævlig Mads fra Tromsø reagerer sterkt på behandlingen han fikk av amerikansk grensekontroll på vei inn i USA.

Another case of a very unpleasant encounter with the US. Caricature of JD Vance found on phone and swoosh expelled from country. Great researchers and conferences over there but not tempting anymore. www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/to-b...

Hands are good. Our brains need more stimuli than just words & math. Otherwise: boring.

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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A picture shows 32 men arranging themselves into an SOS on the ground of a prison yard. The ground is bare earth. All the men are wearing red or orange prison jumpsuits.

What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a
@reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility.

11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b) that achieved 100% PROTECTION in preclinical trials. The vaccine is under development for potential use in BOTH veterinary AND human medicine. 🧪🧵⬇️

During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.

Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Our NSF grant on "Source Credibility, Political Identity, and Factual Belief Revision" with Jonathan Woon was also just cancelled because it is no longer "in alignment with current NSF priorities". This is sad and frustrating!

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Ja. Holmlia i Oslo er fabelaktig sånn. Da jeg bodde der var det nesten alltid raskest å gå.

Harvard-kravene: – Et klassisk autoritært trekk Det ville vært en tragedie om Harvard lot seg diktere av president Donald Trump, mener norsk professor.

Harvard-kravene: – Et klassisk autoritært trekk

Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc).

That’s some fascist shit.

No serious university can accept en bloc affirmative action for students and faculty based on their political views (i.e., government support). Harvard had no choice.

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

Climate research, storm warnings, astrophysics, you name it: down the drain. www.science.org/content/arti...

Canada, pollofpolls. What a chart.

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.

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Trump declares war on state climate laws The president signed an executive order late Tuesday that aims to "stop the enforcement" of a broad swath of state climate regulations.

Trump vil stanse klimainnsats på delstatsnivå - inkludert Californias cap-and-trade - med ny presidentordre.

Motstand fra demokrat-styrte delstater.

Jubel fra oljelobbyen, inkludert American Petroleum Institute, hvor Equinor stadig er medlem.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

NEW | Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record 🇺🇸

Among all the turmoil, some positive news from the latest @ember-energy.org data for March 2025:

🏆↘️ The share of fossil fuels fell to a record low of 49.2%

🏆↗️ Wind and solar power hit a new record high of 24.4%